Astronomers discovered a tiny Black Hole in Messier 101Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy or NGC 5457. The newly discovered black hole is punching black holes in long-held theories about back holes.

The black hole was found in the spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. The black hole is about 22 million light-years away from Earth.

Dr Stephen Justham from the National Astronomical Observatories of China said "It has elegant manners. Such lightweights must devour matter at close to their theoretical limits of consumption to sustain the kind of energy output observed." 

A black hole that is located in the Pinwheel Galaxy is making scientists take another look at what they know about the phenomemon.

The black hole is described as small but voracious. It was found 22 million light years away in the Pinwheel Galaxy.

Researchers are studying how much gas and dust is consumed by black hole.

In a statement, Stephen Justham, of the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is part of the black hole research team said "We thought that when small black holes were pushed to these limits, they would not be able to maintain such refined ways of consuming matter. We expected them to display more complicated behavior when eating so quickly. Apparently we were wrong."

Justham describes the black hole as having "elegant manners" relative to how much matter the black hole needs to sustain its output.

Resarcher measured the motion of the companion star of the black hole using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph at the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The researchers can determine the mass of the black hole.
The findins were published in the journal Nature. They show that the black hole is very small, which baffles the scientists.

Lead author Jifeng Liu  of the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences wrote "Theories have been suggested which allow such low-mass black holes to eat this quickly and shine this brightly in X-rays. But those mechanisms leave signatures in the emitted X-ray spectrum, which this system does not display. Somehow this black hole, with a mass only 20-30 times the mass of our Sun, is able to eat at a rate near to its theoretical maximum while remaining relatively placid. It's amazing. Theory now needs to somehow explain what's going on."